Turmp's doctor repeatedly declines to say whether Trump required supplemental oxygen prior to today.
He also won't say what Trump's fever was. Says he'd "rather not" provide specifics.
Dr. Conley also won't get into Trump's testing history or when his last negative test was.
Dr. Conley says for the 5th/6th time that Trump is not on supplemental oxygen "right now" but keeps refusing to answer questions about whether Trump was on supplemental oxygen before today.
That press conference with the president's doctor just raised more questions than answers. Not the degree of clarity Republican and Democratic lawmakers have been demanding.
For example, there's now mass confusion about when Trump was first diagnosed with Covid and who else he might have interacted with in that window.
WH pool reporter now gets better info from anonymous source than from Trump’s doctor — makes clear Trump is not out of the woods. The mixed messages are having the opposite effect this press conference was supposed to.
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OK this is a new thing. Jack Smith relied on the Jan. 6 committee's interview with Trump's White Hous valet. House Republicans released this transcript earlier this year, but it was significantly redacted.
Smith's excerpt includes portions that were previously unreleased.
The valet describes getting Trump a Diet Coke while he got positioned to watch footage of his speech and the riot. The reason it seems like the House GOP version was redacted? The valet appears to be reviewing timestamped photos of his interactions with Trump.
BREAKING: Judge Chutkan has denied Trump's effort to block a new dossier of Jack Smith's evidence from becoming public.
She says she will unseal it tomorrow.
Chutkan says Trump's request to block the filing because of election considerations is not persuasive and that just because her decisions may have an effect on politics isn't the same as "intentional interference."
In fact, Chutkan says that withholding the filing — which is of high public interest — because of its effect on the election would be the actual election interference Trump warns of.
1) A Trump campaign employee and alleged coconspirator sought to foment chaos at the TCF ballot processing center in Detroit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
2) Trump sidelined his campaign leal team on Nov. 13, putting RUdy Giuliani (CC1) in charge because he was willing to lie about the election results.
The 37-page indictment describes a sophisticated hack-and-leak campaign that succeeded in tricking Trump campaign officials and allies. documentcloud.org/documents/2517…
The hacking operation successfully compromised these people/organziations:
NEW: Courts have chipped away at the Justice Department’s cases against Jan. 6 rioters — and several other threats loom that could further erode what has been the largest and most complex federal probe in history.
1) Many of DOJ’s recent cases have relied on a “geofence” warrant to Google — using devices’ location tracking to identify people inside the restricted area of the Capitol on Jan. 6. But the 5th Circuit recently found geofence warrants are unconstitutional politico.com/news/2024/09/2…
The 5th Circuit isn’t the final word — and a couple other courts have ruled differently — but the issue could be another SCOTUS showdown that limits DOJ’s tools.